According to the pope, God said Christian crusaders should invade the Middle East and exterminate the ‘infidels’ (Muslims) who had occupied Israeli (Canaanite) lands for 500 years. While we can agree that Islam is often the birthplace of radical sects pursuing jihad in the name of their religion, we can’t escape the long history of equally abhorrent behavior by Jews and Christians. I mean, all you have to do is read through the Old Testament to see the countless times that the Jews use “God said” to justify their aggression against other people who possessed lands or other resources the Jews wanted. Africa right now is an absolute nightmare of warring tribes operating under the flag of Islam or Christianity, a situation I blame entirely on Christian missionaries who were so arrogant to believe that undermining tribal traditions with this new religion could ever turn out well. There are tribes who existed for thousands of years in peace, living off the land and worshiping in their own way, now told that their beliefs are all wrong and they must adopt this new religion in order to be ‘saved.’ Suddenly they become caught up in a war of dogmas–Islam vs Christianity, mostly, although in India and Myanmar for example, the conflict is between Buddhism and Islam. To me, even going into places to evangelize - teaching the ‘pitiful heathens’ about God - is a form of violence. Or, on a lesser more pathetic scale, pray in a huddle to win a football game before trotting onto the field to physically assault one another. i.e.–the Jews wanted the land and they’d do whatever it took to get it including slaughtering as many Canaanites as necessary including women and children. Similar edicts by God urged the ‘utter destruction’ of the Canaanites when the actual motivation for Jews was to take over Canaan instead of continuing to live in the mountainous regions where few crops could thrive. According to the Epic of Gilgamesh, the gods who set up the great flood were offended by the NOISE. In modern terms, God was demanding genocide of an entire people.īut then, the Old Testament idea of God included wiping out all of humanity because God was offended by sin. “But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. When Saul failed to do that, God took away his kingdom. Warmongering and violence inflicted by the Jews is part and parcel of their history. Consider when God instructs King Saul to attack the Amalekites: “And utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them,” God says through the prophet Samuel. They were just a scrappy little fringe tribe that came together around an adopted mythology and used violence to take what they wanted. I deviated into that to explain why I have zero faith in the Jewish idea that they were God’s chosen people. Part of the preserved clay tablet record of Sumeriaīut I’m off topic. The Sumerians knew the concept of eternal life in paradise and were seeking it (Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld).Migration originated from those who survived the flood.The language was confused (Enmerkar and the Lord Aratta).The early settlers in Mesopotamia were of one speech (Enmerkar and the Lord Aratta).After the flood, this one man gave thanks to his God.Food and drink can give eternal life (Adapa).Those on the Ark opened a window near the end of the journey sending birds as scouts.
One man and his family survived the flood (Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld).God/gods were displeased with humanity and decided to destroy humanity via the flood (Epic of Gilgamesh, Eridu Genesis, and the Epic of Atrahasis).
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The Old Testament, written by Jews, is full of their violent behavior, not only by conquering tribes in order to seize the lands, but in admonitions like ‘an eye for an eye’ and other aspects of their primitive early laws.īy the way, if you ever want to know how the Israelis got a lot of their Old Testament stories–especially the creation stories–check out Sumerian history recorded on clay tablets. Surely you realize that the claim that ‘God told us to do it’ is an entirely self-serving justification for whatever the Jews wanted to do.
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